Legal Documents of Newport

The gas code adopted in this chapter is hereby amended in the following respects:

Section 103. Qualified installing agency. This section is amended to read as follows:

Installation and replacement of a consumer's gas piping or gas appliances and repair of a consumer's gas appliances shall be performed only by a qualified agency which has filed with the city evidence of a liability bond or insurance policy in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) which indemnifies and saves harmless the city and all persons therein from any loss, cost or damage caused by negligent, inadequate, imperfect or defective work done by the agency while acting in the scope and course of its employment. By the term "qualified agency" is meant any individual, firm, corporation, or company which either in person or through a representative is engaged in and is responsible for the installation, replacement or repair of consumer gas piping, or the connection, installation, repair or servicing of gas appliances, and who is experienced in such work and familiar with all precautions required. (1973 Code, § 6-48)